The most beloved French writer ever
However, with Willy still retaining the royalties from the Claudine books, Colette was penniless, and to earn money she became a music hall performer....
Georgia’s surprising LGBTQ+ scene
During the day, Kikonishvili works with artist and activist Tekla Tevdorashvili and others at the Fungus Gallery, an LGBTQ+ art collective and gallery in...
8 of the world’s best forest homes
(Image credit: Sindre Ellingsen / Helen & Hard) A new book features forest-dwelling designs across the globe, from tiny off-grid treehouses to experimental eco-friendly...
Five ways to be calm and why it matters
As Daisetz T Suzuki writes in Zen in the Japanese Culture: “A haiku does not express ideas but… puts forward images reflecting intuitions. These...
The 90s cop show that changed TV
More retrograde was the fact that the central line-up of detectives was initially going to be all-male, until Fontana and Levinson thought better of...
The 1960s crime film that still shocks
However, if Le Doulos followed in US film noir’s footsteps, there were also striking ways in which it diverged from its template – in...
The song that changed the US
In 1972, he released the seminal album, Talking Book, with politically charged songs including Big Brother, which contained some of the frankest, most socially...
Gen Z’s latest surprising obsession
Music | Classical music Gen Z and young millennials’ surprising obsession (Image credit: Esther Abrami, Getty Images) A radical new wave of artists are...
Films that scare in unexplainable ways
The 1970s saw a wealth of films deal with the decidedly strange atmospheres of English landscapes in a similar fashion – films such as...